This blog will post detailed news items about GLBT issues. Some of the issues include the "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and gay marriage. Please note that my main website is DOASKDOTELL.COM (link on my Profile).

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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Russian Duma passes its version of "COPA" prohibiting making gay content available to minors. What about the open web?

The Washington Post, in a story by Nataliya Vasilyeva and
Mansur Mirovaley, reports (p. A10) that
the Russian Duma house has passed, almost unaminously, a bill prohibiting the
provision of information about homosexuality to minors. The link for the story
ishere.

That would be obviously unconstitutional in the United
States because of the First Amendment.

Would that mean that all gay-oriented websites would be
banned? That’s already the law in
Singapore, although it seems like it isn’t enforced much.

What if the operator of a blog with information of gay
issues traveled to Russia? Could he or
she be detained until he removed everything from the Internet?

Russia is also reported to be considering banning adoption of Russian children from any countries that accept gay marriage. Will they really take care of all their own orphans?

It does not appear that any of my sites are blocked in
Russia, given analytics. They may well be
blocked in China. They don’t’ seem to be
blocked in the Middle East (unless it’s rich Saudi’s who peek around the
firewalls).

I have thought about visiting St. Petersburg later this year,
but would have to consider any “risks” very carefully.

The motive for the law seems to be related to Russia’s low
birthrate. Putin has had “conception
days”. The Russians fear that
information about homosexuality will make “marginal” people less interested in
having children and families. That’s
the old “waverer” theory.

Gay sex, however, has not been outlawed in Russia since
1993, despite the anti-gay bias in much of the society.

The Russian law bears some superficial resemblance to the US "Child Online Protection Act" or COPA, which was struck down as constitutional in 2007. I have a separate blog for that (see my Blogger profile).

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